From Planning to Dispatch: Scheduling in TeamPoint

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From Planning to Dispatch: Scheduling in TeamPoint

TeamPoint helps service businesses plan, allocate and adapt work using connected calendar, map and mobile scheduling tools. From planned maintenance and reactive jobs to skills, availability, travel time and reporting, scheduling stays connected to the wider job information so teams can make better decisions as the day changes.

Scheduling jobs in a service business is challenging, and each of our customers handles it differently. TeamPoint works with businesses across a wide range of industries, and over the years we’ve gained a lot of practical experience in helping customers plan, allocate and manage work in ways that suit how their business operates.

It is a complex problem that has to be solved every day. A scheduler may be balancing planned maintenance, reactive call-outs, surveys, multi-day work, recurring contracts, different teams, different skills, customer commitments and the inevitable changes that happen throughout the day. A job that looks straightforward can become difficult very quickly if the right person is unavailable, the next appointment is several hours away, another urgent job comes in, or information has not been updated across the office and mobile team.

TeamPoint brings those different parts of scheduling together within the same job management platform. [Internal link: Job Management Software/Home] Work can be planned in a calendar, allocated using skills and availability, viewed geographically, dispatched to operatives, updated as work progresses and analysed afterwards through reporting.

The aim is not to make every scheduling decision automatically. It is to give the people planning the work enough information to make good decisions quickly, while keeping the job, customer, site and operational information connected throughout.

Plan work around the way the business actually operates.

For forward planning, TeamPoint provides a calendar-based scheduling tool where schedulers can choose the period, the work they want to plan and the operatives they want to work on the job. The calendar can be viewed across a day, three days, a week or a month depending on how far ahead the planner needs to work. TeamPoint can also surface unscheduled jobs due within the next 14 days, helping upcoming work remain visible before it becomes urgent.

Rather than loading every unscheduled job into one enormous diary, the planner can narrow the workload first. Jobs can be filtered by criteria including due dates, job type and postcode, while operatives can be grouped into smaller planning teams and filtered using tags or skill sets.

TeamPoint weekly scheduling calendar showing operatives with skill tags, colour-coded jobs across the week, travel times, job durations and leave blocks.

Calendar based scheduling.

This article explores how facilities management businesses can balance planned and reactive maintenance more effectively by using operational data, connected workflows and better scheduling. It looks at how job management software can help teams prioritise urgent work, support engineers in the field, identify recurring asset issues, improve first-time fix rates and use reporting to make better use of maintenance resources.

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From Planning to Dispatch: Scheduling in TeamPoint

From Planning to Dispatch: Scheduling in TeamPoint

Plan work around the way the business actually operates.

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